The builder's chest-book or a complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where by way of Dialogue in Nine Lectures the Etymology, Characters, Proportions, Profiles, Ornaments, Measures and Dispositions of the Members of their several Columns and Entablatures are distinctly considered and explain'd with respect to the Practice of Pallaaio. Together With the manner of drawing the Geometrical Elevation of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, and to measure the several Parts of Buildings in general. The whole exemplified by way of Dialogue, in a very concise and familiar manner, illustrated on seven copper-plates: Being a necessary Companion for Gentlemen, as well as Masons, Carpenters, Joyners, Bricklayers, Plasterers, Painters, &c. and all others concern'd in the several Parts of Buildings in general. By B. Langley of Twickenham

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Langley, Batty
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for J. Wilcox, at the Green Dragon, in Little Britain 1727, MDCCXXVII. [1727]
Subjects:	Architecture / Early Works To 1800 Architecture / Orders
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0241300400?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa